I'm all in favour, as I like the layout of github more and it has a really nice wiki feature (can be used as documentation and in-project discussions/ideas area). Although I guess I'm a bit bias since I use and prefer it myself (lol if you hadn't already
guessed by me linking my stuff on it).

Yes, the discussion forum is missing.
But is there a reason why GitHub has not included this?
Is stack overflow an alternative for questions on how to use the library, and then use the issue tracker to discuss defects and new features?

The forum is really the one thing I miss comparing codeplex to GitHub. StackOverflow is not as good as it used to be in terms of answering questions, especially when you have relatively specific library-oriented questions.

Some projects like to use the issue tracker for asking question, but I find it gets crowded quickly and you end up having hard time trying to sort bugs/features requests and questions.

Agreed, it'd be nice if github implemented some kind of simple message board, using the issue tracker for questions just makes it an absolute mess. Having an Oxyplot discourse board seems like a good idea, their sandbox looks good enough, although it doesn't
look like it's free? ... Bah it's a Rails app though >_> much prefer django/flask stuff myself, this is kinda what stopped me from setting up Jekyll too lol, don't really want to touch Ruby...

Hmm looks like you can use
Pelican to setup github.io pages (link1
link2
link3) and use reStructuedText (or 3 other markups). Now I don't have an excuse anymore lol.

Yes, I will do some testing later!
The main reason for changing would be to make it easier to collaborate and manage contributions. It would be interesting to know if changing to GitHub would make more people interested in contributing to the project!
But the lack of discussion forum + loosing issue and discussion history + the work of moving 157 issues could be reason enough to stay with CodePlex...

I would be more interested in contributing to the project. GitHub is a site with more focus on developers who want to help coding OxyPlot while CodePlex seems to have more focus on the discussions. I find more information on StackOverflow than on CodePlex when
i have some problems, so i mostly don't use CodePlex. And when i have some bugs i would rather find the OxyPlot code and fix it on GitHub than on CodePlex because it's more clear and easier for me.
An example: I got an NullReferenceException on OxyPlot/Series/XYAxisSeries.cs: Line 181. I search in CodePlex, find the file but it does not show any lines. So i have to count the lines to get line 181?!

I agree with the forum problem: it would be better if there is a discussion site like on CodePlex. I would suggest a simple forum with phpBB or vBulletin. For discussions but also for wishes, problems, future versions, examples, download versions, etc.

PS: Notice, that there is no download button in GitHub for end user downloads. These must be provided by the discussion site or project site.

Never heard of userecho myself, from the main site it sounds nice, but the one you linked looked horrible lol could just be because it's not set up at all.

I'd be happy to help out moving the issues over on the weekend if you want to coordinate it somehow, also found this:
Codeplex Issue Importer. Depending on what you're using to generate the github.io page it should be pretty simple to rewrite it in Markdown or reStructuredText and make it look
nice, I've seen quite a few nice ones to use as an example out there.

Also, again, welcome back Objo! No clue where you went, but it's nice to see you active again =).

I like the UserEcho site. Especially the FAQ at the beginning. It is also nice that you can sign in with your github account. I'm just curious about the grey boxes behind the text... Is that the information about non-readed posts or just the number of
entries in the section?

I guess there are only a few things left, that maybe needed:

a download button/section for the binaries

maybe one more hint about the license (in FAQ section?)

CodePlex

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After realizing that Ghostery was blocking userecho, I'd have to agree, this is quite a nice setup. Although for some reason I can't log in using my Github account, I'm Slxe btw. Nice to see the move actually happened. Hopefully this'll get more people to contribute, and it'll make it easy for me to.

@fedcba: I am setting up an AppVeyor build that should both push to NuGet and provide the binaries. A question about the license has been added to the FAQ. The grey boxes behind the topic titles seems to be votes, I am not sure how all this works yet...

@Slxe: I just installed Ghostery, but did not see any difference on userecho. Is this still a problem? Is there anything we can do?